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May 25, 2008

G53: Athletics 6, Red Sox 3

Johnny Vander Meer's record remains safe. Jack Hannahan singled on Lester's fourth pitch of the afternoon, one of seven hits Oakland collected off of the Sox lefty in five innings. The A's also received two walks.

Boston cut the A's 4-1 lead to 4-3 in the fifth, after Blanton walked the bases full and Manny Ramirez (3-for-4) wrapped a hard single to center.

Optimism was in the air, but with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Javy Lopez was called upon to retire Jack Cust with a man on base. Cust drove Lopez's first pitch over the wall in left-center for a two-run dong. And that was the ball game.

Tampa's 5-4 walk-off win over the Orioles puts the Rays in first place in the East. Boston is now .5 GB.

Brian Rowley is an optometrist who lives in Santaquin, Utah, about 20 miles south of Provo. He has been to two Red Sox games in his life. The first was Clay Buchholz's no-hitter last Sept. 1 ... The second was Jon Lester's no-hitter Monday night.

There is a vast conspiracy going on to keep me from being around for a agme. Actually, I might catch the 1st few innings before I have to leave for a while. If the "new and improved" game times keep up I'll never make it back for the end.Spent yesterday evening at a cookout thrown by a transplant from Long Island, East Islip to be exact. Great guy, Mets fan. His family was down for the holiday. I caught some serious grief about my hat, but most of them were of the "better that than a Yankee fan" opinion :)

Santana velocity down?Olney: "He is short-arming the ball more than he has in the past -- and this is after some red flags appeared in the physical examination he underwent before signing with the Mets."

in talking about the sox playing long games, they mentioned games against the yankees and said the umpires in those games don't know whether to call a pitch a ball or a strike because here are the two best teams and they each make and pay a lot of money.

Afternoon, chaps. Typical start-after-a-no-hitter from Lester, eh? I've always wondered what the opponent batting average, ERA, average innings pitched, are for all the pitchers' next game after a no-hitter.

Thanks for that link to FJM Tim.I'll bookmark that, it's one of the best and funniest comebacks to idiotic opinion spewing I've heard in a long time.

Cool. Yeah, I'm a constant reader now thanks to finding the link on Joy here. I've got the RSS feed for FJM in my "Links" bar on firefox, so I just click on it and it brings a drop-down menu of the latest posts. Makes it easy to check for new content...do the same with Extra Bases.

And I really love the "if you don't like it, don't read it" retort, the equivilent of "why don't you marry it?" and "if you hate this country so much, why don't you leave it?"

I don't think these are equivalent at all.

Avoiding an article (or television show or movie or book) is easy, way easier (obviously) than moving out of the country. And it makes more sense. If you hate CHB or Michael Moore or nature shows, don't read or watch them.

Applying "love it or leave it" in this case would sound like: "if that article bothers you so much, why don't you simply stop reading".

Or suggesting your friend get a divorce if he doesn't like 100% of the things she does.

Whereas if someone annoys you, you can usually not spend time with that person.